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GEOFFREY CHAUCER :

The Good Parson

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EDMUND SPENSER :

The Ministry of Angels....

From “A Hymn of Heavenly Love"

WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE :

Wolsey's Lament on his Fallen Greatness

Soliloquy on Life and Death....

Remembrance..

True Love

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SIR HENRY WOTTON :

The Happy Life

BEN JONSON:

On Lucy, Countess of Bedford

Epitaph on the Countess-Dowager of Pem-

broke

The Noble Nature.

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GEORGE SANDYS :

Paraphrase on the One Hundred and Forty-

Eighth Psalm

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PHINEAS FLETCHER :

To Find God

WILLIAM DRUMMOND :

Constancy of Change.

To the Nightingale..

Retirement

GEORGE WITHER :

Written in Prison

Stanzas...

ROBERT HERRICK :

To Blossoms..

FRANCIS QUARLES :

Divine Ejaculation ..

GEORGE HERBERT:

The Gifts of God

Constancy

Sin

JAMES SHIRLEY :

Death's Final Conquest....

NICHOLAS BRETON :

Stanzas

EDMUND WALLER :

Stanzas.

JOHN MILTON :

The Announcement of the Scheme of Re-

demption to the Angels ..

Invocation to Light

Satan's Soliloquy

Samson's Lament

From “ Comus"

From “ Lycidas”

From “L'Allegro"

From “Il Penseroso”

Sonnet, on his Blindness

On the Massacre in Piedmont

On his Loss of Sight

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RICHARD CRASHAW :

Temperance; or, The Cheap Physician ..

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POETS OF THE RESTORATION, &c.

ABRAHAM COWLEY :

To the Grasshopper

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JOHN DRYDEN :

Reason and Religion

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Description of a Bold Bad Man

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The War-Horse

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MATTHEW PRIOR :

Charity.

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JOSEPH ADDISON :

Cato on the Immortality of the Soul

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ISAAC WATTS :

Launching into Eternity

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EDWARD YOUNG :

From “The Complaint”

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From “The Love of Fame; a Satire” 56

ALEXANDER POPE :

From "The Messiah”

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SAMUEL WESLEY, JUN. :

Epitaph on an Infant..

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On the Erection of the Monument to Butler

in Westminster Abbey

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Religion

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MEHETABEL WESLEY (MRS. WRIGHT):

To her Dying Infant

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JAMES THOMSON :

Hymn on the Seasons

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CHARLES WESLEY :

Ode on the Death of Dr. Boyce

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Prayer for a Dying Child

Youth and Age

Epitaph on Mrs. Wesley

Lines Dictated a Short Time before his

Death

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SAMUEL JOHNSON :

From “ The Vanity of Human Wishes”..

JOHN GAMBOLD :

The Mystery of Life

Epitaph on Himself

THOMAS GRAY :

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

WILLIAM COLLINS :

Ode Written in 1746

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MARK AKENSIDE :

Taste

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WILLIAM MASON :

Epitaph on Mrs. Mason...

OLIVER GOLDSMITH :

The Village Preacher

The Village Schoolmaster..

From “ The Deserted Village”.

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MODERN POETS.

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WILLIAM COWPER :

On the Receipt of my Mother's Picture ..

From “ Conversation

From “The Task”....

Loss of the Royal George

To a Young Lady

To Mary Unwin ..

To Mary (Mrs. Unwin)

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ANNE LETITIA BARBAULD :

Life

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JAMES BEATTIE :

Hope beyond the Grave....

LADY ANNE BARNARD (LINDSAY) :

Auld Robin Gray

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GEORGE CRABBE :

An English Peasant

ROBERT BURNS :

To a Mountain-Daisy, on turning one

down with the Plough

John Anderson

The Cotter's Saturday Night

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SAMUEL ROGERS :

From "Human Life"

The Meeting of Galileo and Milton.

LADY CAROLINE NAIRN :

The Land o' the Leal....

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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH :

A Character

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The Lost Love

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The Daffodils

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To the Skylark

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Composed upon Westminster Bridge 119

Lucy Gray; or, Solitude

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From “Ode on Intimations of Immortality

from Recollections of Early Childhood ” 122

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SIR WALTER SCOTT :

Scotch Scenery

Hymn of a Jewess

JAMES MONTGOMERY :

The Stranger and his Friend

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